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olos73wrote:

Opala. Put him away for a long time.

on December 19,2012 | 08:16AM

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cunfuzd4wrote:

No, make him live with allie

on December 20,2012 | 05:35PM

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808Cindywrote:

He should serve the maximum jail sentence allowed and more!

on December 19,2012 | 08:41AM

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alliewrote:

Pahoa just stinks as a community. Nothing much but a bunch of pathologies.

on December 19,2012 | 09:03AM

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cunfuzd4wrote:

Obviously you're not very well informed but human behavior has been increasingly bad all over. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235399/Woman-3-grandkids-killed-ND-Indian-reservation-man-dead-miles-away.html

on December 20,2012 | 03:01AM

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cunfuzd4wrote:

but then again, you being uninformed is nothing new to readers of these pages.

on December 20,2012 | 03:16AM

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niimiwrote:

If you search the news archives for incidents in Hilo versus incidents specific to Pahoa or Puna one could establish a trend that Pahoa and Puna have substantially higher rates of crime and violent crime in general, both in absolute terms and more importantly by population density.

on December 20,2012 | 06:58AM

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cunfuzd4wrote:

nimi - so you are saying also that Pahoa stinks and that allies' broad generalizations of residents of the area as "nothing but a bunch of pathologies" as accurate?

on December 20,2012 | 11:27AM

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niimiwrote:

I think a comparative analysis study would be more appropriate across a sampling of communities across different demographics and socio-economic stratification. I don't think the article you quoted is sufficient. A comparative analysis would more appropriately depict trends: e.g., higher or lower correlation of certain factors with rates of crime.

on December 20,2012 | 06:56AM

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cunfuzd4wrote:

niimi - so you're saying that allie's broad generalization describing the residents of Pahoa as "nothing but a bunch of pathologies" is accurate? So because of the actions of a small element of a community, it deserves to be labeled as such? If allie's statement were in fact true, you would never have read about it as it never would have been reported and everyone else would have assisting in covering up the crime. Using the same line of "logic" as allie the article is an equally valid indicator that ND residents are criminal in nature and there is no positive element in the community.

on December 20,2012 | 11:36AM

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WKAMAwrote:

Puna use to be a nice an quiet section of the big island. Now the crazy people are either coming out of the woodwork or moving in.

on December 19,2012 | 08:05PM

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niimiwrote:

That's why I would never want to be a slum lord of sort, no Section 8. That or outsource property management.